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| December's Children (And Everybody's) | ||||
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| Released | 3 December 1965 (1965-12-03)[1] | |||
| Recorded | 8 August 1963 – 26 October 1965 | |||
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 29:04 | |||
| Label | London | |||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
| The Rolling Stones US album chronology | ||||
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| Singles from December's Children (And Everybody's) | ||||
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December's Children (And Everybody's) is the fifth American studio album by the English rock bandthe Rolling Stones, released in December 1965. It is primarily compiled from different released tracks from across the band's recording career up to that point, including the UK version ofOut of Our Heads. BassistBill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs." Accordingly, it is only briefly detailed in Wyman's otherwise exhaustive bookRolling with the Stones. It features their then-recent transatlantic hit single "Get Off of My Cloud", as well as their own remake ofMarianne Faithfull'sJagger/Richards-penned hit "As Tears Go By", which was released as the album's second single in the US.
It is the last of the group's early releases to feature numerous cover songs; writersMick Jagger andKeith Richards wrote only half of the songs themselves. There had been no sessions to record the LP; many of the songs were from the UK edition ofOut of Our Heads recorded in September 1965 in Los Angeles. Many of the tracks had appeared earlier in the UK versions of Rolling Stones albums or had been released on singles or EPs, but had not been heard in the American market; other tracks were unreleased tracks that had been recorded during other recording sessions.
The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham (who facetiously credits it to "Lou Folk-Rock Adler" in his liner notes on the back cover). According to Jagger, it was Oldham's idea of hip,Beat poetry.[3] The front cover photo of the band, byGered Mankowitz, had previously been used for the UK edition ofOut of Our Heads.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| MusicHound Rock |  [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| Tom Hull | A−[8] |
December's Children (And Everybody's) reachedNo. 4 in the US, where it wascertified gold.[9] The group's second USNo. 1,Get Off of My Cloud, was the highest-charting single on the album, also a major chart topper in the band's native UK and several other markets.
In August 2002, the album was reissued in a new remastered CD andSACDdigipak byABKCO Records. "Look What You've Done" remains the album's only cut issued in true stereo.
All tracks are written byMick Jagger andKeith Richards, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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| 1. | "She Said Yeah" | Sonny Bono,Roddy Jackson | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 1:30 |
| 2. | "Talkin' About You" | Chuck Berry | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:30 |
| 3. | "You Better Move On" | Arthur Alexander | The Rolling Stones EP (UK) | 2:37 |
| 4. | "Look What You've Done" | Muddy Waters | December's Children | 2:33 |
| 5. | "The Singer Not the Song" | B-side of "Get Off of My Cloud" (UK) | 2:22 | |
| 6. | "Route 66" | Bobby Troup | Got Live If You Want It! (UK live EP) | 2:29 |
| Total length: | 14:01 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7. | "Get Off of My Cloud" | single (US) | 2:52 | |
| 8. | "I'm Free" | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:17 | |
| 9. | "As Tears Go By" |
| December's Children | 2:45 |
| 10. | "Gotta Get Away" | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:03 | |
| 11. | "Blue Turns to Grey" | December's Children | 2:27 | |
| 12. | "I'm Moving On" | Hank Snow | Got Live If You Want It! (UK live EP) | 2:12 |
| Total length: | 14:36 | |||
Most of the songs were recorded 5–6 September 1965 at theRCA Records studio in Hollywood, California, except:
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| Chart (1966) | Peak position |
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| USBillboard 200[10] | 4 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[11] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
